Fred Willard, Lynn Shelton Earn Posthumous Emmy Nominations

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Emmy nominations have finally been announced and the snubs and surprises are all everyone can talk about today.The awards ceremony has already experienced a seismic shift this year, and that’s not solely due to Game of Thrones’ absence from the nominations list for the first time in what seems like a century.Earlier this year, the Television Academy announced that ‘unprecedented challenges’ resulted in the decision to delay the eligibility and voting deadline for the Emmys amid the Coronavirus

awards season feeling like a thing of the past - exaggerated by the Coronavirus lockdown, which makes it seem like a live event hasn't taken place in a decade - the Emmy nominations for 2020 have been announced.Saturday Night Live's Leslie Jones hosted the nominations reveal on Tuesday, with the help of Laverne Cox, Josh Gaad and Tatiana Maslany.

Kerry Washington is a four-time Emmy nominee — in this year alone. In a statement to ET, the actress called her impressive round-up of nominations «such an honor,» but said «tears came» when she heardthe nomination for her late friend and director, Lynn Shelton. Shelton died on May 16 after being hospitalized as a result of a previously unidentified blood disorder.

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Lynn Shelton was honored with her first-ever Emmy nomination on Tuesday, just over two months after her death.The director, who helmed episodes of TV series like and more — in addition to her feature film work — earned a posthumous nod for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special for the series finale of titled «Find a Way.»«That Lynn is honored by the Television Academy is not only a tribute to her accomplishments as a director but her style of directing,» said

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Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com“Variety Studio: Actors on Actors,” Variety‘s biannual awards season offering, pairs actors who have delivered the best performances of the year for candid conversations about their craft and what really happens on set.This year, 10 actors who participated in Variety‘s television issue received an Emmy nomination.

Two months after his death, Fred Willard has earned his fifth Emmy nomination.

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Alex Stedman News Editor, Variety.comLynn Shelton and Fred Willard both landed Emmy nominations posthumously when they were announced on Tuesday morning.It marks the first Emmy nomination for Shelton, who scored a nod in the best directing for a limited series, movie or special category for Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere.” Specifically, Shelton, who directed four episodes of the limited drama, is up for the episode “Find a Way,” the final installment of the series.